How to Make Small Career Investments that Compound After the Summer 

Every summer, many of us as working women and moms look forward to a slower pace of life: more family time, vacations, a well-deserved break,  and maybe even catching up on postponed projects and finding more time to invest in our careers… And right as the...

Praise or Pay: How to Turn Appreciation and Invisible Labor into Pay as a Working Mom

Every year on Mother's Day, organizations show their appreciation for working mothers with symbols of gratitude—thank-you cards, flowers, appreciation emails. While these are heartwarming and certainly welcome, they rarely translate into actual benefits at work....

Why Hard Work Is Not Enough: What Women Should Know About Meritocratic Systems (and How to Beat Them)

As a working woman, the idea of meritocracy may have been introduced earlier on in life to you. From popular advice to widely accepted success principles, merit-based guidance may have followed you all throughout your education and career.  “Work hard. Be...

Are You Being Financially Discounted at Work? How to Recognize It, and Correct It

Have you ever walked out of a compensation conversation feeling like something didn’t quite add up?Not because you underperformed.Not because you lacked results.But because the offer felt… cautious. Conservative. Tempered.As if someone quietly adjusted the forecast on...

New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)

New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...

The 411: Our News Round-Up

  Enjoy our posts? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Pinterest! Happy Sunday! It is great week-end on this side of the blogosphere, and as we're relaxing on this beautiful Sunday morning, here's the round-up of the news we read this week, some which...

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Week-End Pick: Walking Shorts

Happy Saturday! For our week-end pick today, we are loving these lattice print walking shorts in soft cotton twill from Loft! Nothing like an elegant yet casual pair of shorts on the week-end. You can take these from the neighborhood barbecue, paired with an easy tee,...

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What Are We Teaching Our Kids About Work?

Happy happy Saturday! Yes, it's the start of the week-end, even for some of us who still have to make it to the office, even for a couple of hours today...The weather's beautiful, you can take the kids out, spend more time with them than during the week, and maybe...

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Coffee Break: Garden Pot

For our coffee break,we are all over this marbled glass garden pot from Anthropologie. Whether at home or in the office, I love my decor to reflect who I am. So I fell in love with this marbled glass garden pot, which would look just as good on my desk, right by my...

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Lunch Break: Peasant Top

For our lunch break, this peasant top is calling the week-end, while still being office-friendly enough for a casual Friday at work. Loving the flowy, easy comfort of this delicate peasant top! I usually avoid overly flowery patterns, especially for work, but this is...

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10 TGIF Quotes to Welcome the Week-End

              TGIF! It's Friday, and for most of us, that also means leaving work behind and enjoying the week-end. I know after a long week of hard work, extreme coffee consumption, and mommy duties, I get seriously excited at the...

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After-Hours: Did You bring Work Home Tonight?

So you have a BIG deadline at work tomorrow, and you brought work home, hoping to get to that quarterly report  some time tonight. And here it is, the evening is going by faster than expected. By the time you spend quality time with your family, attend to a couple of...

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Lunch Break: “Suits” Corporate Fashion

Corporate fashion is taking over primetime TV! Not only is Scandal's Olivia Pope's corporate-style wardrobe a character of its own on the show (and did we mention the collaboration between the show and The Limited stores, coming this Fall, read more here), ABC's Suits...

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